Integration of following field trips
with NGSS:Look at how composting can be a way to incorporate energy
transfer (Physical Science) while understand how compost is used
in growing plants from trees, vegetables, and ornamentals.

Learn about restoration of East Bay Hills and how you can help.
This 20 acre historic park will be open to field trips in
2014-15

Integration of following field trips
with NGSS:learn about the Vallejo Adobe through stories,
make an Adobe brick and learn about the Rancho Era, as well as
the unbelievable new history resource in Fremont not open until
now; learn about the development of trees right here in Fremont
(part of 3rd grade NGSS) and local History standards

California Nursery Historical Park (Nursery and
Niles Blvd)

NGSS Life Science and Social Studies
Local History Content at California Nursery and Historical Park
in Niles

Content based, can be adapted to
specific grades, lesson ideas for different grades; materials
Come early and walk through Tule PondsRegister:by email (msn@msnucleus.org)
orphone
(510)790-6284

under construction

Sept –
Butterfly HabitatHow to bring butterflies into the classroom
without buying them - Habitat in the Classroom(receive milkweed plants) and how you can maintain a habitat in a 5-10 gallon
aquarium.Learn the
different host plants needed.Oct -
Nov -
Hayward
FaultThe Hayward Fault creates
Tyson Lagoon.
Learn about
the importance of fault creep and how the fault has shaped the
EastBay.Basic Plate Tectonics and
walk through area; learn about trails throughout FremontDec -
Water Chemistry – Learn how to do simply tests to test for pH,
temperature, nitrates, and other ions, from litmus paper to red
cabbage, and scientific probes and how to use data charts to
interpret data.Jan -Feb -
Rocks and Organic Matter = Soil Native Soil and Composting – Chemistry of soil,
and how to grow natives
(or why does wine grapes like volcanic soil)Learn the local rocks; receive samples, geological map,
soil testing
Mar –Native Plants -
Learn about the native
flowers, shrubs and trees
in the EastBay
by walking the tree trail. Teachers will receive
poppy seeds that
you can grow at school.
Local schools can “adopt” a tree and bring it back at the end of
the school year.
Get tules and instructions on how to build a Tule BoardApr -Protozoa, Invertebrates, and Vertebrates- Learn about the native
organism in the East Bay.
How to effectively use hand lenses, and microscopes, and bug
collecting techniques to turn your students to think about
science every time they see a “bug.”